Your 2025 bingo card in all probability didn’t have Armie Hammer on it attempting to get his profession again on observe, however don’t fear, it will get weirder. The disgraced actor has signed on to play the lead in a film by Uwe Boll with a really acquainted title.
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Per Selection, Hammer will star in The Darkish Knight, a movie unrelated to Batman and based mostly on a script by Boll. Social media sensation Sanders (Hammer) goes on a campaign that makes him a hero to the folks and a menace to society in keeping with the regulation.
Although the title is certain to attract comparisons, and perhaps the plot will too, government producer Michael Roesch assured Selection there’s minimal threat of confusion. “Our film may be very completely different from Chris Nolan’s film, so there isn’t any hazard of confusion,” he mentioned.
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Boll would add, “The story of ‘The Darkish Knight’ couldn’t be a extra present subject, and I’m excited to carry it to life with this glorious forged.” Roesch declared that extra forged members could be introduced quickly because the movie preps for a late-January shoot in Croatia.
Boll, who chided Borderlands for its failure on social media, has a movie out on Paramount Plus that’s doing surprisingly properly for itself. First Shift, against the law drama with middling scores, reached no. 2 within the service’s prime ten upon launch final month.
Hammer’s profession nearly led to 2021 when allegations of sexual misconduct, and even cannibalistic tendencies, went public. Nonetheless, Selection notes, “Following a prolonged probe, Los Angeles prosecutors in 2023 declined to cost the actor with any crime.”
The 38-year-old states his profession is getting again on observe and is on the level the place he has to show down roles resulting from scheduling. “My dance card’s getting fairly full,” Hammer mentioned on his podcast. “That first job that I turned down after 4 years of this…was the most effective feeling I’ve ever had.”
Hammer additionally stars in an upcoming Western, Frontier Crucible, alongside ex-Punisher Thomas Jane and ‘Thriller Man’ William H. Macy. The irony of starring in a movie known as “The Darkish Knight” is the actor was forged as Batman round that point within the canceled venture Justice League: Mortal.
Hammer was additionally rumored to be within the working for the cape and cowl once more when Matt Reeves was fairly actually on the lookout for his “Vengeance” in The Batman. The hypothesis didn’t change into credible within the slightest.
The salacious accusations towards him might not have been credible both – hypothetically anyway – however they nonetheless impressed sleuthing into him and his household. Revelations together with the Hammer clan’s ties to Soviet Communism have been dropped at gentle in tell-all books and the miniseries doc Home of Hammer.
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